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To ask what's the worst thing you've overheard?

194 replies

caringdenise009 · 28/09/2017 19:47

Mine has to be the long loud argument between my neighbours about anal sex. It went on for 15 hours. Such gems as her screaming at him " anyone who wants to fuck a woman up the arse must be a fucking poof anyway". She had her period and wasn't in the mood. All at the top of their voices. For 15 hours. Charming.

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GertiesEyebrow · 30/09/2017 09:36
  1. On a bus, a guy talking to his partner about the baby she had in a pram. The baby wasn't his but he was full of how he'll be a great father and how he'll teach the fucking child to be respectful and he won't take any shit from her. The baby started fussing so he got properly in the pram and started saying "shut the fuck up you little shit head". But he said it in a sing song voice so it was all fun.
The mother was looking quite annoyed by him and they'd obviously not been together long so hopefully she saw sense.
  1. A drunk guy on a train talking to a lady with a non-british accent. Not sure what her accent was but he found it hysterical to keep making her say sexually geaphic things. He was quite intimidating and she was obviously upset by it. Busy train, no staff. Silent carriage. Eventually someone told him to shut up which he did. I complained fo the train company who told me I shpuld have called the BTP and please accept two first class return tickets to anywhere in the country. That was nice but I never took the tickets.
Njordsgrrrl · 30/09/2017 09:49

Not as bad as some of these but I found it really sad 😕 Mother to seven yr old. "Wait until you're about sixteen before you have babies. Have a bit of a life first"

I appreciate that many young parents make a success of their lives and that having DC at that age can be an advantage but the idea that life would be over by then... 😢

Username324 · 30/09/2017 10:08

I was about 13 and babysitting my siblings when my tipsy mum and dad came home after a night out.
It was obvious they’d been arguing and it was still going on so I got up to go to bed.
As I walked to the door my dad said to my mum, ‘get back to the father of that.'

Badweekjustgotworse · 30/09/2017 10:14

Omg user did you ever find out anymore?

Justsmileandwavee · 30/09/2017 10:22

Two grown women saying that
" if you had an epidural in birth you haven't really experienced or given birth"
Yea I said something immediately in a lot of mothers defense.
Iv not had one of these but I couldn't imagine a mother judging another mother for her birth choices but hey. There it was

Niamhisnotarealname · 30/09/2017 11:38

Whilst driving and stuck in traffic a man striding in front of a little girl no more than about 6 telling her to 'hurry the fuck up you stupid fucking piece of shit ' she looked so broken and defeated. it was a cold day and she had no coat on either and her clothes were too small. I have never wanted to run someone over so badly in all my life.

BlurryFace · 30/09/2017 11:45

A woman talking about her young kids being cunts while they were stood with her at the bus stop. A drunk, slurring woman (this was about 10am) telling whoever was on the phone that she wasn't drinking again. The tone of the conversation made it seem like she had a problem and the person on the end of the phone was checking up on her. She was almost in tears when she hung up. :(

StevesFlappyCap · 30/09/2017 11:59

Not overheard , said direct to me. Dm - your aunt offered me money to abort you (via your gm) but I couldn't do that as I'm such a good Catholic. I should have though as having you was such a great sacrifice and basically ruined my life.

Needless to say NC these days.

Sohurt17 · 30/09/2017 12:03

On a train, husband telling his wife she was a bad mother because she wasn't able to make the baby stop crying. Sad

I nearly decked him. But British as ever I pretended not to notice.

Coffeethrowtrampbitch · 30/09/2017 13:08

It wasn't overheard but dh told me after a visit from pil that his step mother had taken him aside and said that if my autoimmune disease made me too difficult to live with, they would support him leaving me and our 3 DC for his own sake. He told me he was too gobsmacked to do more than decline.

This is made worse by the fact that dh's mum had MS, and when he was about 9, his dad asked him to help pack a bag and then walked out, leaving dh as a child carer who had to dress his mum before going to school because she couldn't do it by herself. He stayed until he was 15 and had been arrested twice as his mum hadn't recognised him and had called the police to remove him.
She's always been unpleasant but saying that to dh was a new low.

MissionItsPossible · 30/09/2017 13:31

Mother pushing a baby in her pushchair with her son (I'd guess 7 or 8) who had ran up the street ahead of her. They were arguing and then he shouted to her "Go and stand on a corner, you slag". She screamed back, "Right, that's it. In the morning, I'm phoning the fucking social to take you away".

Midnight0 · 30/09/2017 13:35

My husband, my daughter and I were queing for a flight to visit my family in Eastern Europe. My husband is African and our daughter is mixed race. The Russian couple behind me probably did not realise I speak Russian..I didnt eaves drop on purpose but literally overheard them say "cute little girl, thank God she is not that black..". I sometimes think why I never call them out but I was gobsmacked.

Crowdo · 30/09/2017 13:46

I overheard a teenage girl being sexually assaulted by a grown man once. I was fifteen and she was fourteen. I was in the same room, asleep on the sofa. I woke up and heard everything. I was too young to have any idea that she didn't want to do it, as she'd been plied with drink so she would go along with it. I'd never been drunk and never done anything more than kiss someone. I only realised the next day when she started crying.

Frouby · 30/09/2017 13:53

Some of these are so cruel.

One thing that has stayed with me was being called up to a meeting years ago when I worked in a bank. You have to be very careful financially in a bank and it was grosa misconduct to get into financial difficulty.

I was only 19. Had split up with boyfriend a few months before and was managing mortgage and bills ok on my own. But branch manager and area manager decided I needed to be spoken to.

As I walked up the stairs to the meeting room I heard them discussing me. Saying I was a prime candidate for getting into financial difficulties. That they needed to keep a very close eye on me, I wasn't to access any more staff lending (had a staff mortgage) etc.

Had the meeting, felt very demoralised and lectured.

3 months later area manager who had been the main one slating me was investigated for fraud, found guilty of theft of £1000's and £1000's and did time in prison.

Cheeky Fucker.

mrsRosaPimento · 30/09/2017 14:04

Yorkshireyummymummy, wrong but so funny.Grin

MissEliza · 30/09/2017 17:18

I was getting a scan for ds2 (we lived in an Arab country at the time). A pregnant lady came out of the clinic with a little girl and someone who looked like a nanny . She was making a phone call and I heard her say 'It's a girl. Are you upset?' Then he apparently put the phone down on her. The nanny said 'Is he angry?' The lady looked really sad. I can't imagine how she felt.

swinkle · 30/09/2017 18:29

Mission, you've reminded me of another thing I overheard my mother scream say when I was about 6 or 7 maybe. I had a younger adopted brother (I'm not adopted, btw) that she found difficult to cope with as he had so much energy and kept getting into trouble with her, probably because of her total lack of patience and perception that almost any kind of spirited behaviour from a child was annoying at best, naughty at worst. I heard her raving one day on the phone that she didn't want him anymore and to come and get him. Shortly afterwards he was removed by social services and we barely saw him again after that.

My parents always maintained after that day that a neighbour had heard him shouting and had reported them to social services, who came and removed him immediately against their wishes. I always knew they were lying but I never told them that I'd heard her.

MorrisZapp · 30/09/2017 18:42

Two girls in post office queue. One was trying to persuade the other to phone a boy 'just phone him! He really likes you!' etc.

The other girl said 'I'm too nervous to phone him, I'll do it when I'm driving so it'll take my mind off how scared I am'.

TheRollingCrone · 30/09/2017 18:43

Proverbial FlowersSad

Not exactly overheard, but an elderly Aunt telling me after the birth of her first child the Dr turned and said "just as well you're young, because this one's a dud" (full term stillborn baby boy).

Frogtits · 01/10/2017 06:21

I had to take a fortnight off work after a miscarriage.

When I returned, the temporary woman covering for me seemed a bit strange and unfriendly.

A week or two later, I found a large number of emails that she thought she had deleted.

In fact, there were two Recycle Bins on the computer system so that, if something got deleted accidentally, it wasn’t lost. She didn’t realise about the second bin and found her emails. They sent between her and her friends.

Every single email slagged me off. She suggested that I should be sacked and was utterly vile.

I was at the lowest point in my life and this horrible woman behaved with a venom I will never understand.

To this day, I wish I had dobbed the bitch in.

Frogtits · 01/10/2017 06:22

I found

DorothyL · 01/10/2017 07:22

I heard my mum telling my brother on the phone that I was jealous of him because my son has special needs wheras his hasn't

ScaryMonstersAndSuoerCreeps · 01/10/2017 07:36

Slightly different but my late dh and I had some fun with some old ladies eavesdropping on us many years ago....
DH was considerably older than us and we had to get used to people staring at us. We were in a cafe having lunch when some old ladies sat next to us and immediately started gawping. DH leant forward and said in a loud stage whisper "" When will your husband be home? " The old ladies started whispering to each other....... I leant home and replied to DH " If we leave now we can get two hours in bed.....!!!!!! "
The old ladies were in overdrive as we got up to leave!!!! Grin

sukitea · 01/10/2017 07:48

I was on bed rest in an antenatal ward for many weeks and my bed was closest to the midwives' staffroom/office. It was a hot summer so my window and theirs was always open. I could hear everything they said and was really disappointed at how these lovely-to-your-face women could be so horrible. They slagged most of the women off, body shamed, slagged their partners off too Sad

Florabeebaby · 01/10/2017 08:26

A midwife...outside my room in the morning talking loudly about how I'm failing my baby by not expressing (DS in NICU) and how I need to 'get on with it' etc.
Shame she didn't speak to me and ask me...I had expressed every 3 hours during the night and walked to NICU with the milk. DS was my second prem baby.
Made me feel shit though.